Nigel Powell is an author, columnist, and consultant with over 30 years of experience in the technology industry. He produced the weekly Don't Panic technology column in the Sunday Times newspaper for 16 years and is the author of the Sunday Times book of Computer Answers, published by Harper Collins. He has been a technology pundit on Sky Television's Global Village program and a regular contributor to BBC Radio Five's Men's Hour.
He has an Honours degree in law (LLB) and a Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), and his work has made him an expert in all things software, AI, security, privacy, mobile, and other tech innovations. Nigel currently lives in West London and enjoys spending time meditating and listening to music.
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Github Spark is a new tool from Microsoft that will let people create apps from nothing but a simple text description.

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Suno introduced a new feature that lets you generate a 'performer' to give some consistency to your songs.
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Google's new Inksight AI model is able to more accurately read handwriting.

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OpenAI's Advanced Voice is now widely available and with 10 minutes for free every month, here are some tips for getting the most out of the time.

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Hedra lets you clone your own voices and lend it to an AI-generated character. A step up from using synthetic voices.

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Google has a rival in the text-to-podcast space with Meta dropping its own NotebookLlama to rival NotebookLM.

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Open source models are starting to catch up with those from companies like Midjourney and OpenAI. This is the true powerhouse of the AI scene.

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OpenAI is rumored to be close to releasing GPT-5, or maybe not...

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Ollama makes it easy to run AI models on your laptop and the latest update allows you to pull them from HuggingFace.

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Anthropic has given Claude the ability to control aspects of a computer, allowing you to interact with a machine through simple text prompts.

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ComfyUI is launching a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that will make creating AI locally easier than ever.

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Using AI wrappers can help you get much more out of artificial intelligence than just visiting ChatGPT.

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Google Illuminate is an AI experiment that lets you create an instant, one-click podcast from a science topic of your choice.

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Swarm is a new framework from OpenAI that is designed to demonstrate how AI could act independently on set tasks.

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Companies are actively looking for a way to watermark AI-generated content, but is it necessary?

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Suno's new 'replace section' feature is an innovative game-changer, which lets users tweak the lyrics at any time without needing a do-over.

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The Flux AI image generator finally runs on your PC, and it's magnificent. One click install using Forge, superb images with text, and decently fast on a standard GPU. What's not to love?

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Google's new NotebookLM is the start of a revolution in how we interact with information. We'd better get used to it.

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The new Lyric Writer tool from Udio helps songwriters craft the perfect words for their tracks. It's fast, flexible and lets you add song structure tags too.

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AI agents can be given a large language model brain and left to their own devices. In a recent test researchers left 1,000 of them to run free on a Minecraft server.

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Testing AI image generators can be a challenge as they all behave and follow prompts in different ways. Here we've tried it with four random models on realistic prompts.
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Hotshot offers short-form AI video with a degree of photorealism and impressive movement.
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